St. Paul daily globe., 1887-03-26

great country" drawled out the English
man. .'The only objection ! have to your
blasted climate is that there is about three
weeks in the year when the sleighing is not
good"
President CLEVELAND Is not alarmed by DR..
Sewers prediction that he Is going to die
from too much corporosity. He refuses to
adopt his mother-in-law's advice to try an
anti-fat remedy. Col. LAMONT says that the
president weighs less than when he first en-
tered the White house and takes great deal
more exercise than people know Of He must
walk in his sleep.
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BISMARCK now wears the badge of the Order
of the White Eaele as a gift from the czar of
Russia. In the course OF nature it will not be
long until the great chancellor wears the
badge of the Order of White Wings as a gift
from the czar of the universe.
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Some idea of what big man Judge REAGAN
is down in Texas may be formed from the fact
that it took 270 ballots to nominate a candi-
date to succeed him in the Second congress
sional district of that state.
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A number of ladies constituting q commit
tee of local missionary society had a meet
ing day or two ago to devise ways and
means TO raise fund for the support of a
mission in Africa. Several suggestions had
been submitted and discussed and plan
about agreed upon, when one lady inter-
jected query as to whether the education
we receive in this life is an advantage to one
in the spiritual life of the other world.
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"Does an educated person at death enter
upon Il higher state of being than an illlterate
one?" was the way the question was put.
After protracted discussion woman ver-
dict was rendered: That the wisdom Of this
world would not count for anything in the
next, and that all the wise and the ignorant
entered the new life on al equality.
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Then the question was raised: Are the
heather who never had any gospel light to be
damned for not believing what they never
heard and never had q chance to hear? 1t
didn't take woman's sympathetic nature long
to arrive at a conclusion on this point. There
wasn't much time wasted in argument. The
jury was polled and the verdict made unan-
inous that Gods chiefest attitude was mercy,
and that the unenlightened heather are
saved.
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"Well. then, If that is the case" remarked
young sister who, up to this time, had been
an attentive listener, but had refrained from
taking part in the discussion, 'sarcn't we a
set of simpletons to be begging money to
make salvation risky for that part of the
human race who have dead sure thing on
it?' This remark brought the committee to q
sense OF its heterodoxy, motion was made
and carried to letonsider the vote by which
the resolutions were passed, and they were
laid on the table. The missionary collection
will be taken up on Sunday, as usual
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The statement published in this morning
GLOBE relative to the number of passes that
had been issued by one railroad company to
and at the request of the members of the
Wisconsin legislature is startling revelation
of the immensity OF this abuse in railway man.
agement. At low money valuation these
23,SOO passes issued by this one company was
equivalent to paying $1,000, 600 to the mem-
bers of the Wisconsin legislature.
This is the record of one road in one state
only. 1t is not stated what number of passes
were issued in the same way by other roads
and in other states. But it is not an exa-ger-
alton to say that by placing fair valuation
on all the passes that have been issued by all
the roads in the United States the total
amount expended in currying favor with
members of the state and national legislature
would foot up pretty closeto S1OO.0OO,OOO.
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CARTER HARRISON has one quality not pos
sessed by every politician. He knows when
to let go. Three successive elections to the
office of mayor Of Chicago and unanimous
nomination for the fourth is vindicatlon
enough for man whose only ambition is pro
bono publco.